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XENEN
Report by Maj. Izra Dargan, New Republic Military
Overview
Three years ago, the NRM division known as the Aurora Force undertook a mission to liberate the Imperial-held world of Xenen, in the Kartuiin Sector. Now, the world is the location of Shay Memorial Military Base, home of the Aurora Force, Ice Squadron, Tigress Squadron, and the 58TH Squadron of New Republic Commandos.
Environment and Geography <From Imperial Survey, Republic Survey Forthcoming>
Xenen is a temperate world, if cool.
Seasonal changes are slight, but noticeable.
The polar regions remain cold year-round, with minimal seasonal melt.
The equatorial regions remain warm year-round, suffering from hurricanes
during the summer and fall. Rivers
flood in the spring and early summer with melt from colder regions, making the
Naveda Plains surrounding the Ashkar River and its tributaries an especially
fertile area. The Ashkar River is a major feature of Xenen’s main
continent, Calder. Another major
feature of the continent is the Kinvou Valley, carved by seismic activity and
the Questor River, which begins at Krator Lake amongst the Kintara Range of
volcanoes and mountains. The
Daraval Forest is located in the Kinvou Valley.
Also of note are the geological features of the Northern Reaches of
Xenen, including vents, geysers, and volcanoes amongst tundra and glaciers
surrounding Xenen’s northern pole. The
peak of Mount Cassidy is the second highest elevation in the Kartuiin Sector,
towering at 8,611 m above sea level.
A small chain of islands (the Chin’yai) off the coast of Calder link it
to Uriv, the second of four continents on Xenen.
Uriv is home to the Kantana River and the Targos Mountain Range.
The third continent, Zannar, is the smallest of the four, and is
dominated by the volcanic Yantara Range and uninhabitable salt flats and deserts
more inhospitable than those found on Tatooine.
The fourth and final continent is Artica, which is a small slab of land
eternally covered by glacier at Xenen’s southern pole.
Cities
The capital of Xenen is Novis, located on the flood plain of the Ashkar
River. It grew from a simple
farmer’s market into a major industrial, agricultural, and cultural center. Xenen University has its main campus within the city limits
and the Ross School of Military Science. Novis
is also the home of the planetary legislature, to which representatives from
sixteen areas of Calder, two representatives from the Chin’yai Islands, and
three representatives from Uriv are elected and sent.
Novis is the seat of government for Xenen.
Also within the city limits is Carsa Spaceport, named for Old Republic
era flight pioneer Francine Carsa, the daughter of local settlers.
The areas surrounding Novis were formerly home to large farming combines
that were under Imperial control. New
legislation has put land back into the hands of families who hereditarily held
the land and worked it.
Vendra is an agricultural and industrial center, also located on the
Naveda Plain. It is the location of
Fanel Spaceport, named for courageous freighter pilot Vance Fanel who risked
death to rescue stranded climbers from high altitudes in the treacherous Kintara
Mountains during one of the worst snowstorms in Xenen’s recorded history. The major industries in Vendra are the production of
transiparisteel and the production of pharmaceuticals.
The firms that produce the products are locally owned and owe no
allegiance to the Empire.
Quis, the home of Shay Memorial Military Base, is also home to one of the
largest and most comprehensive libraries off Coruscant: The Library of Serah,
named for the late wife of Warlord Vertil Dargan.
The Library of Serah is the greatest repository of knowledge regarding
the Kartuiin Sector anywhere, surpassing even the Imperial Library on Coruscant
in volumes concerning the area as well as possessing some major historical
documents from the Core, brought by colonists under the Old Republic.
The city is also home to Serah University, one of the Rim’s premier
private colleges. There is a
thriving youth subculture and nightlife in Quis.
The Yaraven Spaceport is also located in Quis, and is named for a local
fighter pilot, Matthew Yaraven, who served in the Clone Wars.
Shay Memorial Military Base is located outside the city proper, with
grounds stretching into the Daraval Forest.
Had Addan is the gateway to the Northern Reaches.
The tundra city is a trade center, spaceport, and major scientific
outpost. It is home to Wilmas Young
Spaceport, which is named for scientist and explorer Wilmas Young, the first
individual to reach Xenen’s northern pole.
Had Addan is also home to the winter training grounds for the Aurora
Force’s Blood Squadron, which liberated from the now-defunct 72nd
Division of the Imperial Army a set of AT-ST Mk IIs. In addition, it is the home to Xenen University – Had Addan
campus, which houses the schools of zoology, biology, and geology, among others.
Osiris, located at the edge of the Naveda Plain, is home to a minor
spaceport and is a stop for those traveling between the more settled northerly
areas of Xenen’s Calder continent. It
is also a trading city for agricultural products and is home to many crafters,
who have turned their textile work, fed by local herders, into a thriving
industry.
Berenbor, in the foothills of the Kintara Mountains, is a small and
well-maintained spaceport. It is
situated along the Questor River and at the mouth of the Talshal Pass, one of
the few routes from the Kinvou Valley to the ocean.
It has become a center for downriver shipping from the Kinvou Valley
south.
Yist is located along the coast and is a port city.
It is the jumping-off point for ships heading toward Uriv, as well as for
ships going to the open-water drilling rigs or the deep sea fishing lanes.
Since the New Republic took the world, a thriving community of Mon Cal
and Quarren has arisen in the quieter port city.
San Insia, situated on the Questor River delta and Calder’s
coastline, is just northeast of the first of the Chin’yai Islands. It is a starting point for many pleasure cruises and the
Chin’yai Islands’ main source of supplies.
San Insia is known for its fine cuisine, thriving night-life, and rapidly
changing fashion trends. It is a
well-known vacation spot and is open to all comers.
Pormyst is the
gateway to Uriv. The city is a
thriving community serving settlers on their way to Uriv’s rustic frontiers,
ships bringing supplies or picking up exotics, and vacationers out to resorts
just beyond the city seeking a little bit of adventure. Since
the end of Imperial occupation, many settlements have sprung up on the continent
of Uriv, with several more areas beginning to create their own trade centers
beyond Uriv.
Government
New Republic Military Representation
The New Republic Military is represented on Xenen by four units:
the Aurora Force, Ice Squadron, Tigress Squadron, and the 58TH Squadron of New
Republic Commandos. All share a
main base of operations at Shay Memorial Military Base, named for the late
Carilla Shay, one of the original members of the Aurora Force, with the
exception of Tigress Squadron, which is based in Novis.
The Aurora Force is commanded by General Indiana Bridger, a veteran of
the Minos Cluster Conflict and now in command of the New Republic’s forces in
the Kartuiin Sector. The Aurora
Force consists of two wings, Eclipse and Backlash, and seven squadrons
(Harbinger, Corsair, and Lightning in Eclipse and Blood, Avalanche, Redstar, and
Nebula in Backlash). The Aurora
Force also has within it a special operations unit (Aurora Special Forces) and
an internal training academy run by a squadron of instructors known as Indigo
Skies. Attached to Aurora Force are
three fleets, the main fleet, the border fleet, and the reserve fleet, the
flagship of the fleet being the ISD-II Dashan, on which Eclipse Wing,
which specializes in urban combat and starfighter operations, is based when not
on Xenen.
Operating as independent units attached to the Aurora Force are Ice
Squadron under Commander Kingston “Ice” Taylor-Drake, Tigress Squadron under
Major Keena Naduma, and the 58TH
Squadron of New Republic Commandos under Major Slate Bridger.
Ice Squadron is a rebuilt version of the squadron which Commander
Taylor-Drake led during the Galactic Civil War.
The squadron was decommissioned after the war ended and recommissioned at
the behest of Taylor-Drake and General Tag Rendar, commander of the Deliverance
Task Force. Tigress Squadron is a former part of the now-disbanded Sun Tzu
Corps, which was formerly under the command of Alec Jaggers. The squadron
is under the command of Major Keena Naduma, veteran of the rebellion on Chenar
and is the first individual from Chenar to join the New Republic Military.
The unit is hand-picked for various skills and is a starfighter/commando unit similar
to Wedge Antilles' Wraith Squadron and is based in Novis.
The 58TH
Squadron of New Republic Commandos was created from elements of resistance cells
from the Core. They are urban
commandos under the command of Slate Bridger, a former CorSec cadet and a veteran of many a street fight
on Coruscant prior to the world’s fall to Republic forces.
The unit has been attached to the Aurora Force to help train the
commandos of the fleet.